Re: change root pasword

2009-01-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 09:33:26AM +0200, Ivailo Tanusheff wrote: Hi, If you have a physical access to the server - reboot in single user mode and change the password. Other option is to login on the console with user toor and no password and change it then. If you have made user

Re: Dell 2900 invalid partition table

2009-01-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:35:45PM +0100, Len Conrad wrote: freebsd 7.1 Dell 2900, perc 6/i controller with 4 SATA disks in RAID1. We get all the through the disc1 install, reboot, arrive up to Press ctrl-E for remote access setup within 5 secs then die with Invalid

Re: switching bsdlabel's label

2009-01-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:45:28AM -0200, Eduardo Meyer wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:36:34PM -0200, Eduardo Meyer wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Patrick M. Hausen hau...@punkt.de wrote: Hello

Re: switching bsdlabel's label

2009-01-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:36:34PM -0200, Eduardo Meyer wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Patrick M. Hausen hau...@punkt.de wrote: Hello, On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:24:27PM -0200, Eduardo Meyer wrote: I have a certain disk where da0s1a and da0s1d are inverted. By some reason

Re: slices to dangerously dedicated

2009-01-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 02:47:24PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Suppose I have a disk which was - for various reasons - lebeled using slices. Is it possible to change it to dangerously dedicated without backup-wipe-relabel-restore cycle? Not really.And why would you want to?

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:09:16PM -0500, Akenner wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and I have multiple user accounts set up. I made about 4 for myself to use and do various testing with, and made some for my Wife as well because She knows UNIX better than I do anyway heh.

Re: Experience with DELL PowerEdge 2900

2009-01-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:59:02PM +0100, Tobias Daub wrote: Hi There, I'm pretty new to UNIX/FreeBSD and I'm going to install and administrate FreeBSD on a DELL PowerEdge 2900. Does anybody have experience with that machine, or are there any known problems, for example: - Perc RAID

Re: Embedded scripting language advice sought

2009-01-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:41:59PM -0500, Linda Messerschmidt wrote: For a project I'm working on, I need to find an scripting language, and I have a long wishlist: Oh Oh, you're going to start a religious war now. Well, good luck and be ready to take everything you hear with a shovelful of

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:20:50AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:08:02AM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:20:50 +1000 Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:53 -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting

Re: skype permissions

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 02:02:30PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 12:14:54 Rem P Roberti wrote: I have just installed Skype and the only way that I can launch the program is as root. I know that that is a permissions thing, but I can't figure out how to bring

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:19:00PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP installed from

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:13:32AM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, I am looking for your advice. Due to a very stupid design decision my / slice is only 256 MB. It seems too little so whenever I compile a new kernel, I need to move the kernel.old to a different slice to install

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:13:45AM -0800, tsai wrote: Hi all, Is there a tutorial on how to install FreeBSD on a system which already has Windows XP on it? The goal is to have dual-boot with both. The FreeBSD Handbook - free online at the FreeBSD web site - has a whole section on that.

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
it, leave it alone - anyway as long as MS-SP isn't bothered by it. jerry Thanks, tsai On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:13:45AM -0800, tsai wrote: Hi all, Is there a tutorial on how to install FreeBSD

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: snip Not to be presumptious, or rude, but I've read the first part of this thread (a bit late, yes) and I'm just confused. If you're going to go so far as to prep the drive at home, before driving to the NOC, with a unrunnable

Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:06:25AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: is there anything specific I should look at for switches or just dump /dev/ad2s1 | restore? Use:dump 0af - | restore -rf - It would be advisable to read the dump and restore manpages first. In 6.1, and I

Re: Disk Label Editor problem

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:02:59AM -0200, luizbcampos wrote: I installed FreeBSD-7.0amd64 on my 40GB disk and I chose automatic partition at disk label editor. I need to download a 665GB OS but at a given moment the system complains about lack of space on the disk (469GB). It has happened

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 02:23:25AM +, RW wrote: On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:09:57 + Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its limitations (eg max file size) but it's very cross platform. ntfs is much more robust than fat32, if you crash

Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:15:52PM -0800, mojo fms wrote: I can run a check disk on it and it returned that the file system was previously mounted on /mnt/backup and returns that the file system is in good shape. I will have to wait until I get back in front of it to attempt the dump piped

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:36:33AM +, RW wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file system type.That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to FAT32. Not a good

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:46:54PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 2:09 PM -0800 1/4/09, David Christensen wrote: I have changed the root shell to Bash on another machine I use as a CVS server and haven't noticed any issues yet, but I've been wondering if I'm setting myself up for

Re: wiping a drive with dd

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:55:41PM -0500, gpeel wrote: Hi all, When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). Yes. jerry

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
. Fortuneatley, I can see my windows partition in KNoppix, so I am in the process of getting the data moved to a backup drive. Indeed, I am writting this email through Konquerer! Thank god for live file systems. -Grant On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:30:53 -0500, Michael Copeland wrote Jerry McAllister

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 05:23:01PM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: Hi all, I was bored earlier tonight and I decided to tinker a bit with FreeBSD 6.4 on my Windows XP SP3 box. In that machine, there is one SATA drive.

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:37:28PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: So then, IF we are able to restore the Windows MBR, and boot into windows, should we not be able to boot the machine with a bootable FreeBSD disk, then, use Sysinstall to restore the FreeBSD boot manager? Maybe, but better to

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:40:58AM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, For those that have been following this thread: I now have Norton GoBack uninstalled and un-hooked from the MBR -Had to go to Symantec and get a rescue disk, -The rescue disk tried to un-hook GOBAck from the MBR, -It

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:53:51AM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi Mike, I am not at all sure whate you are suggesting here? What I am asking, is, somehting like: Can I reboot the machine with the FreeBSD install disk, and using the sysinstall utility, reinstall the freebsd boot manger so

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ? Maybe.But, MS software is notorious for not recognizing any other OSen nor being able to boot them So, use the FreeBSD fdisk which will plant the FreeBSD MBR.

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Question 1) I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c: alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c' It works fine. I thought that I could automate the process further by mounting /c at boot-up time, so I

Re: Sysinstall

2009-01-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 07:23:20PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Cool to see the thread take this twist, but the original question still remains: How doe one install FreeBSD without the sysinstal utility? You can do it manually, piece by piece. But, otherwise, you don't and you don't want to.

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
, rejoyce. This part is the same. You don't need to remove da1 at this time, but you can, as you wish. Comments please. See above. jerry -Grant - Original Message - From: Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions List freebsd

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
to the dump/restores. The big ones can take a while. Have fun, jerryJerry McAllisterjerr...@msu.edu -Grant. P.S. I AM reading all the manuals and handbooks, I just can't afford to mess this up :-) ___ freebsd-questions

Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question

2008-12-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:37:46AM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: Jerry McAllister a écrit : On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:02:06PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: Daniel Bye a écrit : On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:28:18AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:16:10 FreeBSD

Re: SOLVED: Simple swap question

2008-12-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:04:26PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: Tom Worster a écrit : On 12/19/08 10:37 AM, FreeBSD free...@optiksecurite.com wrote: Because this server is monitored by Nagios and it emails me every hour a warning because the swap is not 100% free (I know it's pretty extreme,

Re: Simple swap question

2008-12-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:02:06PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: Daniel Bye a écrit : On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:28:18AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:16:10 FreeBSD wrote: Hi everyone, I have a FreeBSD 7.0-Release server that started to swap after an error in a shell

Re: NEED HELP FOR SUITABLE VERSION

2008-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:55:49AM +0800, hitech resources wrote: *HI, i have PowerEdge(TM) 840, Quad Core Xeon Pro X3220 Processor, so what is the suitable version of FreeBSD i could use. I actually want to use it for server purposes. TQ Go with the latest RELEASE. If you can wait a short

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 02:28:54AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:22:15 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: There is _nothing_ that is inherently server oriented about the main FreeBSD tree, and it hasn't split to anything of the sort.

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:46:49PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:29 -0500, Jerry wrote: snip IMHO, before FreeBSD can make a significant market share improvement, it has to improve its hardware support. NVidia, for one, has expressed a desire to support FreeBSD;

Re: update packages or reinstall

2008-12-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:25:57AM -0500, Gary Hartl wrote: Hi all; Ok I've got a system running 6.0-release, it is an internal server and has nothing important on it. I'm running into problems where a lot of the packages are old and out of date, and everyday it seems I'm having

Re: mounting /usr/local on separate drive

2008-12-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05:04:03PM -0500, Gary Hartl wrote: Hi all; Ok i'm working on this netra here. There are a couple of annoying things about these things and one of em is that you can only have a single drive on either IDE controller (masters only no slaves allowed). So my goal

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 11:04:00AM +0100, Redd Vinylene wrote: On this dedicated box here I made the mistake of adding a comment to root's entry in my password file: root:*:0:0::/root:/bin/sh # What I thought would be a harmless comment. Now I can't su to root. And my ISP is closed on

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 11:28:32PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dangerous is probably overstating the issue a bit ... AFAIK the danger is that someone boots the machine with an installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the disk as unformatted -- hence obviously containing

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:16:00AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: AFAIK the danger is that someone boots the machine with an installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the disk as unformatted -- hence obviously containing nothing important -- because it doesn't have a

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:47:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:39 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:17:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:56:44 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If FreeBSD is to put

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:57:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:55 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Da Rock writes: Excuse my nose in here- I just have a couple of questions. 1) It IS possible to boot from a dedicated disk? Yes. Can't remember the last

Re: G4U inquiry

2008-12-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:00:09PM -0600, Tyson Boellstorff wrote: On Thursday 04 December 2008 14:44:40 Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I have a bsd box with a 12 gig drive- I'm going to get a new drive (larger) to replace it as it is quite old and slow - My question is when I clone it with

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:53:23AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Polytropon wrote: ad0 |---| the whole disk ad0s1 \--/ one slice ad0s1X

Re: (no subject)

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:56:44AM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: If one has a system with 7 500Gb SATA disks in a hardware RAID6 (Areca Raid Controller), then (according to mail J.Chadwick 7 Nov 2008) they will show up as da (following naming convention for scsi disks although they are not).

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:17:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:56:44 +0100 (CET), Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If FreeBSD is to put on the system as only operating system (Fdisk: A = Use Entire disk), then will the BSD-partitions will show up as ad0a (/),

Re: To swap or not to swap

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 04:56:52PM +, Anthony M. Rasat wrote: Fellas, I need opinions. Asus Eee PC, SSD storage, 512MB RAM, with GNOME and other desktop thingy (testing out of curiousity). Question is, swap or no swap? Remember, this is SSD, it is reasonable to have no swap. However,

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 01:41:43PM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of Chad Perrin On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 01:25:24PM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of Chad Perrin On the other hand, both Unix and Linux have a long way to go before they can match Microsoft's ease of use

Re: To swap or not to swap

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 08:01:22PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Yes, have some swap. The system uses this space for more than swapping out processes. It uses it for paging and for crash dumping. The rule of thumb is 2.2 times memory size. why not 2.17? Sounds good to me.Takes one

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-12-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 08:23:49PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: This is why I can easily justify teaching my elders FreeBSD -- they unquestionably have more to learn, but they only learn it once, so the investment pays off. but most people don't like to learn. even once. You need to begin

Re: Unix program that sends email directly using MX record

2008-11-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:36:50PM -0500, Dan wrote: Kelly Jones([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.22 14:16:56 -0700: What Unix program sends email directly, using the MX record of the recipient, instead of using sendmail or an installed MTA? Sendmail/Sendwhale sucks for just about anything.

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 fdisk issue during installation

2008-11-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 08:03:58PM +0100, Jonatan Evald Buus wrote: Greetings, I tried to install FreeBSD 7.0 on an old server earlier today and ran in to a number of issues related to slicing and labeling the disk using fdisk. The drive in the machine is a 40GB Seagate Barracude (ST34001A)

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 fdisk issue during installation

2008-11-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
it. jerry Appreciate the clarification Cheers Jona On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 08:03:58PM +0100, Jonatan Evald Buus wrote: Greetings, I tried to install FreeBSD 7.0 on an old server earlier today

Re: Installation

2008-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:02:40PM -0800, Niyi Christ wrote: Hi,   I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when

Re: Hello just looking for info

2008-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:38:23PM -0330, Robert Anthony wrote: Hello dear Sir/ Madam; I have recently started work on a business plan for a small computer manufacturing plant. I have decided that I want to distribute my computers with a non windows OS such as Linux or free BSD or something

Re: Installation

2008-11-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:35:19PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:18:13PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: usage or need. You seem to be reserving FBSD only for the experts. I wouldn't be here is someone that simply use unix an expert? no. By constantly repeating that UNIX is no Windows replacement you are and i will

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 03:49:40PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: This is nonsense. The Windows interface itself is quite limited and not very powerful. as KDE and Gnome and others. when Win/95 came out being an OS/2 user at that time. From what I have read even the user interface of

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:16:37PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: All nice GUI for unices turned to be bad idea, every windows user will say it's poor compared to windows. and they are right. I totally disagree. Please note that your *opinion* doesn't become truth, i exactly repeat opinion

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:54:48AM -0500, Dan wrote: Wojciech Puchar([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.18 16:51:16 +0100: Have you used, erm... Linux? Both Linux and FreeBSD run pretty much at hardware level. You benchmark either, you'll get very close results in for benchmarks doing same

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:29:27PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: so why it have a much smaller market share? Because MS wrote restrictive contracts with companies trying to sell PCs saying that if they wanted to put MS on any of their Apple produces it's own computers. Actually a branded

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 01:06:34AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I strongly recommend all of You to stop this bad trend. Could you please stop trolling? You're not contributing to anything here. no - because i'm not trolling. simply ignore me if you don't understand what i write

Re: shrink ntfs

2008-11-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:39:48AM +0100, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all, Newbie question from a not newbie (well I think ;-) ) I've install many FreeBSD, but I always use the all disk. If I've a laptop come with winxp ? How can I shrink the WinNT partition ? Can the FreeBSD install CD do

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 01:00:34PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: and (sometimes) from linux to FreeBSD. But not from Windows. Come on, lose your thickness and let the guy be free from Vista. I DO NOT say don't free from microsoft! you may change Toyota to Nissan, and just sit down

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 03:21:27PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 16:39 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:00:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:58 +0100, peter wrote: Dear

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:57:31PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: simply reading FreeBSD handbook will be the best move for the beginning. But it is NOT windoze replacement. It is if you put it on the system instead of MS-Win stuff. It will totally replace it if you use fdisk to create a

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:22:00AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: The OP asked advice on an OS alternative to Vista and asked about FreeBSD. Telling him that FreeBSD is a good choice is not making a religious statement. It is just answering his question in an honest manner. no -

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:21:04AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: opinion But why are we interested in converting people? That borders on religious, which an operating system should not be. exactly. it's a good idea to tell people about trying FreeBSD if they are already using some

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:18:07AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: FreeBSD is a very powerful and stable system, but that said it is also very hands on - the opposite extreme of vista which is all hands off. This means that you will have a very steep learning curve. simply reading FreeBSD

Re: High Noonn DVD??

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 03:40:06AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 03:55:42AM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Do any of you guys know why the DVD version of HIGH NOON won't play on my computers? I've tried everything I can think of. Zero. I

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:19:34PM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows vista but i cannot understand which system to use maybe windows XP? i am not sure if freebsd will work with my hardware

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:00:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 11:58 +0100, peter wrote: Dear sirs please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows vista but i cannot understand which system to use i am not sure if freebsd will work

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:56:26PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:19:34PM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: please can you help me i am totally confused i want to change from windows vista but i cannot understand which system to use maybe

Re: Release schedules

2008-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can offer any help or useful suggestions, but here goes... What on earth is going on with release scheduling? FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, according to the

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 - filesystem full

2008-11-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:34:11PM +0300, Varshavchick Alexander wrote: I have an old enough server with FreeBSD 5.4 which from time to time complains about filesystem full. But the problem is that the partition in question has about 15G free space and more than 1000 free inodes. Then

Re: root /etc/csh

2008-11-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 04:13:54PM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: Glen Barber wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Pieter Donche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 7.0 comes with the user root with start up shell /bin/csh As normal user I use bash (/usr/local/bin/bash installed) I would

Re: PATH problem

2008-11-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:08:05PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I've PATH problem with a perl package (I don't knwon anything about perl). I run rt (3.8) under apache22 + mod_perl2 and on some p5 librairie I've got message like Command 'dot' not found in /bin, /usr/bin at

Re: hundred files to tar and untar

2008-11-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:10:36AM -0500, chloe K wrote: Hi I have hundred files to tar How can I make tar the file but untar in different folder? Just use cd. You can use cd in a script just like you would at the command line. cd /what/ever/the/source/directory/is tar

Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?

2008-11-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 12:10:41AM +0800, Foo JH wrote: Hi there, Earlier I was asking for some help getting XSP/ mod_mono on FreeBSD. I may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea. To pose my questions to the

Re: hit some FS/slice size limit?

2008-11-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:09:25PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I partitioned my Seagate 500 GB Sata drive under the FreeBSD 7.1 sysinstall (booted from the install CD while having the drive attached to USB on my notebook). When creating the filesystems I chose 472 G for the / partition

Re: (no subject)

2008-11-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:45:07PM -0500, SAM HAYNES wrote: Greetings, O Learned Ones from: Sam Haynes, Pathfinders 2008 I haven't the foggiest as to how you came to be in my favorites list, other than that I probably tagged you in an ongoing search for both or either something to

Re: Using csup

2008-11-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 05:38:28PM -0800, David Allen wrote: I'd like to move to using csup(1) and there's an error in the manpage that's raising some questions for me: OPTIONS base=base The default base directory is /usr/local/etc/csup. FILES

Re: XFCE4

2008-11-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:38:07PM +0800, joeb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FBSD1 wrote: What port names need to be installed to create a XFCE4 desktop environment? I was looking for a mega port like kde3 has but could not identify one. Thanks in advance.

Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:01:21PM +0800, Alex Zhang wrote: Dear Support: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now? And let me know how to subscribe the QA list that I prefer. Thanks in advance. All of

Re: Question: the stable edition of Freebsd

2008-11-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:53:52PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:01:21PM +0800, Alex Zhang wrote: Dear Support: I'm a newcomer and want to install FreeBSD for study. Could you pls let me know which the stable edition of FreeBSD now

Re: fastest raw device copy?

2008-10-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:48:16AM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Hi list, I'm considering using a bootable USB stick with FreeBSD to perform a backup of my notebooks' 500 GB hard disk to a physically identical (same make, same type, same size) hard disk attached to USB. What would

Re: fastest raw device copy?

2008-10-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 04:48:32PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Jerry McAllister schrieb: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:48:16AM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Hi list, I'm considering using a bootable USB stick with FreeBSD to perform a backup of my notebooks' 500 GB hard disk

Re: Script-friendly (parseble) ps(1) output?

2008-10-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:15:29PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduardo Meyer wrote: Hello, I need to write a cgi script which will print the output from ps(1) in a table (html), so the average-operator can click on a KILL link and the cgi

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:43:23PM +, pwn wrote: immediately after the installation of FreeBSD what steps should be performed by order 1 - Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel 2 - The Cutting Edge 3 - Updating FreeBSD Is this the proper order? I would say, first update FreeBSD src and

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:56:01PM +, pwn wrote: Jerry McAllister escreveu: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:43:23PM +, pwn wrote: immediately after the installation of FreeBSD what steps should be performed by order 1 - Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel 2 - The Cutting Edge 3

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:39:16PM +, pwn wrote: Jerry McAllister escreveu: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:56:01PM +, pwn wrote: Jerry McAllister escreveu: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:43:23PM +, pwn wrote: immediately after the installation of FreeBSD what

Re: Looking for the right FreeBSD.iso

2008-10-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:16:04PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:56:56PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Maybe I am wrong, but I feel it shouldn't be necessary to waste 3 CDs from installation if I have a high-speed permanent

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 03:40:28PM -0200, User Lenzi wrote: Em Ter, 2008-10-28 às 07:41 -0700, Dánielisz László escreveu: Hello! I also had some fight with Adobe's Flash player, but unfortunately without success. I remaing curios about any solution. Laci Me too, I am

Re: How to restore a lost root password...

2008-10-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 02:12:19AM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: Mauricio L?pez wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:18:25PM +0100, Rada alive wrote: I have seen a How to about this but I have a problem, i set the console

Re: Looking for the right FreeBSD.iso

2008-10-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:34:42AM +0100, LennyCZ wrote: Hello! I would like to try FreeBSD on my machine, but I did not find any information regarding the ISO files on FreeBSD FTP sites. For example, in ISO directory for 7.0 release, I found these files:

Re: duplicate a drive

2008-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:29:18PM -0300, Joey Mingrone wrote: Hi, My laptop died recently and to get back to work as quickly as possible I simply took the laptop ide drive and put it into an old desktop using a 2.5 - 3.5 ide adapter. After loading a few new drivers into the kernel

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